The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1887-11-15
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MI. l.. ID. Gay, familiarly known as "Pat
Gay is certainly entitled to the sobriquet OF the
| champion farmer of Early county. From what we
deem reliable authority we learn he has this year
raised on his farm something near one hundred
bales of cotton, besides an immense quantity of corn,
anu nom TINS production will clear above all eX-
! penses near fifty bales OF cotton Pat" though
! young in years with such hcks this is destined
| to be one ofthe wealthy planters of our county.
! From the Leary, Ca, Courier.
1t is refreshing to note the growing interest of
our farmers IN stock raising. There AZ probably now
more colts IN Calhoun county than ever before
has now pretty colts Of his own raishg g on
| hand. Is the leaderin this industry.
The County Alliance of Schley county, at a
meeting, elected delegates to the meeting to
be held in Americas on the 10th instant, to Or
ganize State Farmers Alliance.
Mrs. Mcneil committed suicide at Preston
! by drowning. George Mcneil, her husband is
| miller for s. Bell, who lives some four miles
north of Preston. The family arose early, Nc
| Neil having to come to Preston to meet Mrs.
| McNeiPs sister, who would arrive ON the 55
a. m. train. AS soon as he got up he took a
boat and went up into the pond to fish his
nets, bringing back with him string of fish.
! lie took them in the house and laid them on
the hearth in the cook room. His wife became
angry, and began to abuse him, saying she
| could not keep anything clean for him. He,
| in reply, began cursing. She said she would
| drown herself, and he told her that he didn't
care d-n if she did. She Immediately ran
out Of the house and jumped into the pond
,
| his wife's sister both saw her when she jumped
| in. Mcneil can't swim, but he ard wifes sis
| ter made efforts to save her by handing her
| long pole. Either from n determination to
commit suicide or exhaustion, she made no eff
| fort to catch hold. She was fished out in o
very short time by some of the neighbors who
| arrived. The unfortionate womans sister,
Miss Carrie Thornton, who was present, says
| that she is satisfied that she did not intend
| drowning herself, but.thought she would be
| rescued by her husband They had not been
getting along very agreeably; were continually
having little spats, and she had threatened to
| drown herself several times before, when at
last she repeated her threat no attention was
| paid to it,
| From the Americas, Ca, Recorder
! More grass, more stock and less cotton,
| would increase the prosperity of Georgia farmers
| Maggie Gailoway,a notorious Macon woman,
| was arrested Tuesdy night for being drunk and
| disorderly, and was placed in the barracks.
"Wednesday she had sobered up good deal,
| when she talked through the bars of her cell.
She told q remarkable tale about Cook, the
eX-sherlif of Jones county, whose dead body
was found III the Ocmulgee river Sunday af-
| ternoon.
Maggie Galloway says he was murdered by
two white men last Sunday night, near the
house where Sophia Thompsonl ived, close by
the park, and q short distance be-
low the Central railroad bridge,
and his dead body was then thrown into
the river, not far from where viii Bass found
a hat, which, it was claimed, belonged to Cook
Maggie says she had gone to Sophie Thomp-
sons to see her, not knowing that she had
moved, and her attention was attracted by one
of the men calling Cook hard name. One of
the men was quite large and the other rather
smaller, and the small one accosted his COM
panion by the name of Jack" and the larger
one called him ''Bob" She saw the faces of
all the men by the light of the matches they
constantly struck to examine the money and
other articles they took from Cook. She heard
Cook say, "Gentlemen L will give you every
I haV NfVntl 51,n,N How f,,c
hurt. There is two dollars and some odd cents
IN my pocket you have not taken yet" AS
soon as he uttered these words Maggie says
she saw one of the strangers raise his hand and
in it glittered some kind of bright sharp
looking weapon, and it was plunged seemingly
right in the big man SlbOdy and he fell down to
the ground with groan. The men then picked
up his body, carried it to the river near
by and threw it in. Maggie says she started to
walk off, hoping to get away in the darkness
| unobserved, but the two men saw her and
commenced to pursue her and-called her to
stop, but she only faster. The race was
kept up until she had reached the depot of the
East Tennessee railroad, when her pursuers
stopped and won't off in another direction. She
states that the killing OF Cook occurred on
| Saturday night of the fair, and his hat was
Of the week previous.
A Knoxville correspondent speaking of the
Mathews boiler explosion, says:
Not sign of the engine boiler was left where it
sVO1u MI rOICst j. MdtuSWsi OF inc
| mill, and one of Crawiord's best young men, was
| torn into atoms he was thrown seventy five yards
| through the tops OF trees Every bone in him was
broken; half of his head was torn Off and all of his
brains were gone. All of his clothing tom of
| of him. He presented CHASTITY and horrible sight.
| Hamp Richardson, negro was thrown fifty yards
| and torn all to pieces. No two portions of his
body was found together and his head has not been
Henry Filter, colored, was killed, his brains was
| knocked out
Eli Colbert, who is fatally injured, was throynup
| twenty feet into the air and fell through the top
OF the an oak tree, all Of his clothing torn oil
| of him.
The machinery was blown in every direction A
piece OF the boiler that would weight 1900 pounds
| was thrown fifty yards. lt struck pine in few
feet of the mill that wasfouteen inches in diameter
knocked it up by the roots broke it into small pieces
| and through piece twenty feet long forty yards.
| The crown was thrown yards feet in another
direction. struck wagon and tore it all TO pieces.
| At the breaking ont of the war Bryant James,
of Eufaula, Alabama, left for the front as first
| lieutenant of Colts artillery. AS he babe
| farewell to his young wife he placed upon her
| finger plain gold ring, bidding her remember
| him. AT one of the terrible engagements
| around Petersburg while Smelling federal
| battery, shell from the enemy carried off the
| lieutenant's right arm, taking away as a sacri-
| flee to the cause the hand that had so tenderly
| placed the ring upon the fair hand of his wife.
! This invested the ring with a tender pathos,
| and though now after nearly quarter of q
| century's wear the ring has worn to q slender
| band of gold it has never been taken from
| her finger, and Mrs. James says that it never
! shall.
Saturday was the biggest day Randolph
has seen in long time. 1t was the occasion
of the colt show, which had been industrously
advertised under the auspices of the Randolph
| County Agricultural society, and appropriate
premiums offered for the best displays. Early
in the day the farmers began to arrive from
| every quarter bringing with them colts of
| every age, color and size.
Stock raising is a comparatively new indus
| try in this section, but those who are familiar
with other sections where it is the chief oc-
cupation Of the people, say that the exhibit
here was very hattering. The enclosed circle
| Of about one acre, where formerly stood the
courthouse, was selected as the most appro-
pirate place to show the stock, and into this
they were led as fast as they arrived in town.
| BY eleven o'clock the show was a magnificent
one. The enclosure was full to OVERLOOKING
with as pretty colts, varying in age from two
years to six months old, as any county in tLe
| state could show.
Farmers old and young tIronged around the
| fence in an ecstacy Of delight. The rivalry
was warm and unusually strong. Between
| number OF colts, competent critics differed as
| 10 which should wear the blue rbbOng. Some